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"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is."
"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."
"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."
"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."
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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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